- Autocomplete: Is it good or bad?
There are two kinds of Autocompletes: Google-type, suggesting words as you type, or Spelling-corrector type. Both may work or fcuk up, depending on the situation. But, one area where autocomplete may be hurting us i…
Topic: Google, Trend | Read more
- After Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Nuclear, now comes Big Chicken
As the world eats more and more chicken, neighborhoods anywhere near an industrial-scale chicken farms suffer - the stench is just too much. That is the price of increasing human consumption.
And, however spokesperson…
Topic: Trend, Environment | Read more
- Uncool Youth - Part 2: Being young has never been cool: All generations, when young, were corporate sellouts
Being on the wrong side of 30, I can empathize the anger of Gawker when it says the the college youth of today are the biggest generation of corporate sellouts ever.
But, contrary to all perceptions, being young has…
Topic: Youth, Rant | Read more
- The state of Pakistan: 20 years behind the world, and Imran Khan is no solution
From an interview of noted Af-Pak expert Ahmad Rashid, where he says that Pakistan is 20 years behind the world:
The end of the Cold War presented a lot of benefits to many countries but it passed Pakistan by completely…
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- A short chronology of Indian Civilian-Military Distrust
The Indian Express story about unexpected troop movements around Delhi in January 2012, on the same that the army chief General Singh took the government to the Supreme Court, raises more questions about the state of Ind…
Topic: India | Read more
- No. # reason to quit Facebook: Enough of watching activity streams of people who merely floated through your life
The timeline of insignificant people is the number one reason people will stop using Facebook. 'Mind-boggling privacy settings and inability to categorize "friends"' are just the most popular Facebook peeves. Jill Krasny…
Topic: Facebook, Quit facebook | Read more
- Uncool youth - Part 1: Hunger Games vs Bully
Global film business is a teen film business. That, I get. But, teens only watch escapist movies like Hunger Games (which itself is a rip off from old movies and stories), not the more important movie Bully (about school…
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- The Success Manual has been updated!
The updated version of The Success Manual has more content and is easier to use. The book has 600+ pages of compiled wisdom on 125 important traits, skills and activities, helping you grasp instantly great ideas from …
Topic: Books and Literature, Ebook, Book summary, Remarkable | Read more
- Introducing Rules for Writers: Collection of useful writing advice from great writers and books
Rules for Writers is a nifty collections of 200+ Big Ideas about writing from Great Writers and some useful books about writing. The advice is arranged across fiction writing, non-fiction writing, business writing, an…
Topic: Books and Literature, Ebook, Writing, Book summary | Read more
- Introducing Rules for startups: Collection of useful tips from 50+ great books on entrepreneurship
Rules for Startups is a never-before compilation of big ideas about startups from 50+ Best Books on Entrepreneurship.
Useful tips from the 50+ useful books for all you entrepreneurs out there have been arranged acro…
Topic: Books and Literature, Ebook, Startup, Book summary | Read more
- Introducing The Gist: Condensed knowledge from 200+ greatest business and self-improvement books
The Gist contains 1000+ Big Ideas From 200+ Greatest Business & Self-Improvement Books of all time.
The Gist will help you learn instantly from the gist of 200+ all time great business and self-improvement books - c…
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- Journalists hall of infamy: People who got caught copying, fabricating…
So, Mike Daisey might have fabricated some parts of Apple/Foxconn awful factories in China, that doesn’t deny the truth about the awful working conditions under which your shiny, over-priced, status-gizmos are made, and …
Topic: List, Business, Media, Journalism, Controversey, Simpleguide, Scandal | Read more
- Should you buy the new iPad? Don't waste your money, go for these options instead
The new, funnily-named Retina screen, is the only thing worth noting in the new iPad. I am not sure what version it is. Will the ipad in 2020 be called iPad 11 or whatI am digressing. Anyway, the new, improved HD-quality…
Topic: Gadget, Ipad, Apple | Read more
- Why the friction of paper money defined our lives (and how bad a cashless future will be)
While the poor (and salaried) like the rise of electronic payments - the direct bank-to-bank money transfers - salary or subsidy, it doesn\'t matter, as long as you get the money fast and secure.
But, consider the f…
Topic: Business, Trends | Read more
- Yes, waitressing is a real job: Wall Street isn't a real job
Whatever prejudice you might subscribe to, any job that involves you serving other people's needs is a job. Damn all old stereotypes, waitressing is a job. It might be something you would do all your life - but, it is …
Topic: Business, Job | Read more
- Nike's FuelBand: Do we need yet another wearable exercise monitor?
Will you fork up $149 for Nike's new Fuelband exercise bracelet, gleaming LED lights and all, when there are better, cheaper options in the wearable exercise monitors in the market?
One can imagine middle-class t…
Topic: Geek, Gadget, Health | Read more
- 11 most important figures about birth control in the United States
Forget about politics and morals. At end of it, birth and birth control are about money. These are the most important figures on the subject that you must know:
1. Generic versions of birth control pill costs $9/month…
Topic: Health, Birth control | Read more
- $50 LED light bulb from Philips: A luxury item (cheaper ones already in the market)
Philips won a $10 million contest run by the US government, the L Prize from Department of Enenrgy, to build the best (theoritically) eco-friendly and affordable LED bulb.
The prize-winning LED bulb will soon be launc…
Topic: Gadget, Geek, Eco-friendly | Read more
- Adventures in teen smoking: Behind the epidemic is heavy marketing by tobacco companies
The idea behind all tobacco advertising is that smoking makes you 'cool', without having to do anything 'harmful'. Not surprisingly, 2.6 million teenagers smoke cigarettes. 1 out 4 high schooler smokes.
Now, let's loo…
Topic: Health | Read more
- Draw Something: Pictionary meets Scrabble
Some call the hot new app 'Draw something' (12 million downloads and 7.1 million daily active users, in less than 5 weeks of introduction) the next 'Words with friends', the next 'time waster', because time-wasting is …
Topic: App, Mobile game, Gaming | Read more
